The question is, do you try and tailor a pitch to your strongest suit (in our case, probably preparing a road), or do you try and boost your weaknesses up (probably a spinner's pitch, given we have a number of spinners - Beaver, Loganathan, Lewis, Furball, myself - but only Beaver is >90)?

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Originally Posted by Hurricane

I hate s smith.

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Originally Posted by ohnoitsyou

All hail KW, GOAT.

Originally Posted by Jono

Honestly if Dan isn't the greatest living creature on Earth, he is only second behind Luggage.

Well the top performing spinner is Sriram and I can't remember who's team he is on but he isn't on ours he is a leggie. There is also Himanv who listed himself as 100 for bowling spin. So the other teams have spinners. And because they have 15 players each I am confident they will each have a second part time spinner as well.

Our best spinner is Hairy Beaver ably supported by PEWS and Loganathan is an unknown as he didn't play any warm up games iirc but he has 70 bowling points.

I got great enjoyment shouting "WHY THE **** ISN'T THIS GAME BEING PLAYED AT THE BASIN?!>!?!?" to reasonably significant cheers from the sparse crowd

one day NZ will bring chappell to his knees in a puddle of his own tears and you'll see Phlegm on his belly greedily tasting every delicious tear before watching the hope fade from that old ****s eyes.

The question is, do you try and tailor a pitch to your strongest suit (in our case, probably preparing a road), or do you try and boost your weaknesses up (probably a spinner's pitch, given we have a number of spinners - Beaver, Loganathan, Lewis, Furball, myself - but only Beaver is >90)?

you and GF are part timers - so I don't know how good you will be even on a bunsen.

Sriram and Himann are good specialist spinners are both are in Howe's team - I would be wary of making out pitch too spinner friendly.

Interesting to see we have no FMs. Going through the regos, they don't seem to be in abundance at all. Will we be penalised slightly on a lack of bowling variety? We only have the one medium as well, I think.

Pitch conditions will be openly disclosed anyhow - talk of keeping this information as confidential was merely an idea floated; one deemed inpractical and unfair, given the public discussions which have already taken place on the matter. Disclosure of conditions will also allow teams to select "horses for courses" so to speak, giving further and more incentivised oppurtunity for squad rotation.